Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town(newatlas.com)

260 points by aa_is_op 2 years ago | 156 comments

Proposed Oklahoma skyscraper gets redesign to become USA's new tallest building(newatlas.com)

47 points by geox 2 years ago | 114 comments

Earth's oceans used to be green, and they could turn purple next(newatlas.com)

23 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 3 comments

Surfactants safely take down mosquitoes without using insecticides(newatlas.com)

37 points by sahin 3 years ago | 58 comments

Tiny vanes glued to planes promise big savings for US Air Force(newatlas.com)

40 points by dabinat 1 year ago | 30 comments

The largest hydroelectric dam in the world has been approved(newatlas.com)

20 points by thelastgallon 1 year ago | 29 comments

New York City should carefully measure a new tree(blog.willmeye.rs)

69 points by willmeyers 23 days ago | 13 comments

Blog post arguing New York City should measure new candidate trees, since its tallest carefully measured tree, the Queens Giant, was last measured in 2004.

Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative(cell.com)

326 points by ecosystem 3 years ago | 113 comments

Open-access Cell paper reporting that stressed plants emit airborne ultrasonic sounds that reveal their condition and can be classified.

The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you what's changed(apps.npr.org)

432 points by geox 2 years ago | 197 comments

NPR interactive map showing how the USDA plant hardiness gardening zones shifted in the updated map and what changed by location.

Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates(lancaster.ac.uk)

342 points by gmays 1 year ago | 369 comments

Lancaster University news release reporting new estimates that humans have already caused about 1.5 °C of long-term global warming.

Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic(reuters.com)

356 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 338 comments

Reuters news article reporting that Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic, published October 27, 2023.

Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find(techxplore.com)

513 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 403 comments

TechXplore news article on Stanford research finding carbon capture is more costly than switching to renewable energy.